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20110211

Vorster, Susan, 63, dead in Boksburg lake

Mrs Susan Vorster, 63, went missing from her Shell petrol-station job in Boksburg on Monday. Her body was recovered from Boksburg lake on Friday Feb 10 2011.

Her employer's white Toyota Corolla, her handbag and the jewellery she wore were missing.

There was blood in her mother’s nose and ears when she identified her mother’s body in the mortuary, said her daughter Edna du Plessis, 40. She and sister Tanya Vorster, 28 had to identify their mother in Germiston on Thursday.

Beeld journalist Jacques Steenkamp interviewed the distraught women shortly afterwards. Mrs Du Plessis said sister Tanya ‘collapsed when she recognised their mom. We expected the worst but were not prepared for what we saw. We are devastated,' she was quoted as saying in Beeld. Despite all these obvious indications that Mrs Vorster had been a crime-victim, the police were 'still awaiting the coroner's confirmation whether she was murdered or had drowned,’ said warrant-officer André de Jager . http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vermiste-se-lyk-gevind-Bloed-in-ore-neus-20110210

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '